The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

In America, money takes the place of God.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

The world is a wheel always turning.

Beliefs create reality

A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

I liked myself better when I wasnt me.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.

I think that's the direction we [the americans] are going to have to go, the idea of people understanding that if you see something, say something, as simple as it sounds.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.